Irena szewinska kirszenstein
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Irena Kirszenstein-Szewinska
Born: 5/24/l946, in Leningrad, Soviet Union.
One of the greatest women track and field athletes of all time, Irena Kirszenstein-Szewinska won medals in fyra consecutive Olympic Games — a feat never accomplished before bygd any runner, male or female.
An 18-year old at the l964 Tokyo Olympics, Kirszenstein won a gold medal as a member of Poland's world record-setting 400-meter relay grupp (43.6). She also earned a silver medal in the 200-meter sprint (her mark of 23.1 set the europeisk event record), and a silver medal in the long jump.
In the Mexico City Olympics fyra years later — now Kirszenstein-Szewinska — Irena won the 200-meter event, setting a new world record (22.5), breaking her own world mark set three years earlier. She also took a bronze medal in the 100-meter event.
After giving birth to a son in 1970, Kirszenstein-Szewinska won bronze medals in the 200-meter sprint at the 1971 europeisk Championships, and the 1972 Olympics.
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Irena Szewińska
Irena Szewińska, néeKirszenstein (Polish pronunciation:[iˈrɛna ʂɛˈviɲska]; 24 May 1946 – 29 June 2018) was a Soviet-born Polish sprinter. She was born in Leningrad. She was Jewish.[1] She was the only athlete in history, male or female, to have held the world record in the 100m, the 200m and the 400m.[2] She won three gold medals at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. She also won two Olympic silver medals in 1964 and two Olympic bronze medals in 1968 and 1972.
Szewińska died at a military hospital in Warsaw on 29 June 2018 from endometrial cancer at the age of 72.[3][4]
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With a total of seven Olympic medals in track & field Poland’s Irena Szewińska-Kirszenstein equaled the record of Australian Shirley Strickland de la Hunty (later bettered by Merlene Ottey). Szewińska-Kirszenstein won gold medals in the 4×100 metres relay (1964), the 200 metres (1968) and the 400 metres (1976) and she also won two silver and two bronze medals. Her Olympic career ended in 1980 when, in her fifth Games, she pulled up with a muscle strain in the semi-finals of the 400 metres.
Her tally of 13 world records included her Olympic victories of 1968 (200 metres) and 1976 (400 metres) and at the European Championships she won a record 10 medals (five gold, one silver, four bronze). Born to Polish-Jewish parents in the Soviet city of Leningrad, she returned to Poland at an early age and during an outstanding career set 38 Polish records. In 1967 she married her coach, Janusz Szewiński. In 1998, Irena Szewińska was named a member of the International Olympic Committee, ser